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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



Locality. Banks of the river Avon, Canal, and in damp places. 

 P. Fl. July, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



General throughout the County. Hcsemblcs the last species, but 

 the leaves are much narrower; they are very shortly stalked, 

 oblong or lanceolate, slightly cordate at the base. Flowers of a 

 pale bluish purple, forming shorter and more crowded spikes than 

 in S. sylvatica. A variety with rather broader and longer-stalked 

 leaves and a longer tube to the corolla is the S. ambigua (Sm.) ; 

 this form should be looked for in the county. 



4. S. arvensis, (Linn.) corn Woundwort. Engl. Bot. t. 1154. 



Locality. Corn-fields on a damp loamy soil. A. Fl. August, 

 September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



In all the Districts but not common. Stem branched, spreading, 

 often procumbent. Flowers small, the dull purple corolla scarcely 

 extending beyond the calyx. Nuts covered with minute dots and 

 scattered tubercles. 



Ballota, (Linn.) Horehound. 

 Linn. CI. xiv. Ord. i. 



Name derived from the Greek ballote, to reject ; on account of 

 its disagreeable smell. 



1. B. fostida, (Lam.) stinking Horehound. Engl. Bot. t. 46. 

 Reich. Icones, 1041. 



Locality. Dry hedge-banks and waste ground. F. Fl. July, 

 August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Recorded in all the Districts, frequent. Stems 2 or 3 feet high. 



Flowers in whorls, purple, sometimes white. Whole plant fetid. 

 A hard coarse plant covered with hairs. 



Marrubium, (Linn.) White Horehound. 

 Linn. CI. xiv. Ord. i. 



Name. A word used by Pliny, from the Hebrew marrob, bitter 

 juice ; the herb being extremely bitter, and a very old and popular 

 remedy for coughs and asthmas. 



1. M. vulgar e, (Linn.) common or white Horehound. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 410. 



